Improvement in pumps



A. SfBAKE R PUMP.. ,k No.185,063. Patente d Dec. 5, 1876,

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ALLEN S. BAKER, OF EVANSVILLE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN PUMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,063, dated December5, 1876 application filed June 13, 1876. v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLEN S. BAKER, of Evansville, in the county of Rockand State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement inPumps; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exactdescription of the same, reference-being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to the means for attaching the brace to apump-standard so that the brace can be secured at any point to thestandard or placed in any position relative to the spout, and theset-screw heretofore used for securing the brace to the standard doneaway with. My invention therein consists in the construction of thestandard at the point where the brace is joined to the same, and in theconstruction-of the end of the brace, all as more fully hereinafterexplained.

To enable others skilled in the art to manufacture my device, I nowdescribe the same in connection with the drawings, in which- Figure 1 isa side elevation of the pump. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of thepump-standard and the end of the brace at the point of connection andFig. 3 is a separate view of the upper end of the brace.

Like letters denote corresponding parts in each figure.

A represents the standard of a pump, circular in form, of the kind whichis secured by a base, a, to a platform or flooring in yards, stables, orother places. B is the top. These pumps are provided with a brace, G,which is secured to the standard at its upper end below the spout, andto the platform at its lower end in the line of the handle, to relievethe strain upon the base. The pump-standard is cast with adownwardly-projecting circular flange, b, so as to form anupwardly-entering.

groove, 12. Below the groove on the standard 7 The upper end of v iscast a projecting ring, 0. the brace O is constructed with a groove, d,which fits over'the ring 0011 the standard, and an upwardly-turned end,d, which enters the groove b.

The upper end of the brace may be moved around the pump standard to anydesired point, and the lower end secured to the platform. This isespecially advantageous in pumps having the top B adapted to berevolved, in which case the brace ought .to be moved into the line ofthehandle, to relieve the strain.

The construction of the standard and the brace make a cheap andefficient device, and the parts are held together securely without theset-screw now used.

Having thus fully described my device, and explained some of itsadvantages, what-I'claim as new therein, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is.

1. The combination, with the pump-standard A, of a brace, held at itsupper end to the said standard only by the spring of the brace, andadapted to be removed from the standard or adjusted to any point aroundthe same by disconnecting its lower end from the platform, substantiallyas and for the purposes set forth.

2. The standard A, having the groove 1) and ring 0, and the brace 0,having the groove (1 and end d, when the several parts are constructed,arranged, and combined substantially as described and shown.

This specification signed and witnessed this 13th day of April, 1876.

ALLEN .S. BAKER.

Witnesses:

WM. H. TAGGART, JAMES H. HosKms.

